There are secrets that are broken; there are secrets taken to the grave; there are state secrets for which people are hanged for betraying – and then there are the valuations of Chinese startups. Whil...

Meituan, China’s top daily deals startup, has managed to double its sales revenue during 2013. Meituan CEO Wang Xing took to Sina Weibo (spotted by Technode) late on New Year’s Eve to say that the dea...

It’s time to check back in with China’s massive daily deals industry and see how all the Groupon-like sites are progressing in Q1 2013. One of the key findings is that the top 10 deals sites have near...

Today and tomorrow is a sort of Chinese Valentine’s, so it’s an apt time for couples to be thinking of one another. That explains the timing behind China’s most surprising daily deal being offered by ...

After a lively explosion a couple years ago, most of China’s group buy sites have long since died out. But Meituan, which has been a top player in the sector for quite a while now, is still going stro...

We’re following China’s daily deals market very closely, digging into quarterly market share data as soon as we can get our hands on it. Today it’s time for Q4 2012 statistics courtesy once again of D...

We’ve been seeing China’s hotly-contested daily deals industry settle down a bit in the past year – and now new data for 2012 Q3 shows huge consolidation of power (ie: market share) in the whole secto...

China’s biggest third party online payment platform, Alipay, established China’s first internet payment security alliance, which aims to enhance the level of security in online payment transactions. O...

New market share stats for China’s fragmented daily deals market in 2012 Q2 in China show the strongest sites consolidating their leads even further. Now, the top 20 group buy sites account for 97.1 p...

Meituan CEO Wang Xing certainly seems to know what he’s doing; after all, his company is one of the few that has emerged victorious from the brutal culling of most of China’s group buy sites. So when ...

New statistics for China’s group buy market show dramatic drops in monthly transaction volume and value. The latter plummeted 23 percent from the May figure to hit 2.08 billion RMB (US$329.4 million) ...

Many people are massively skeptical of Chinese group buy sites – both the sustainability of the industry as a whole, and the veracity of the claims made by individual daily deals companies. To allay t...

A local newspaper in China recently accused Meituan, the country’s largest daily deals site, of fraudulently inflating its transaction volume figure by a factor of three. That has prompted Meituan’s m...

Here is another insightful monthly report on China’s group buy space from the good folks over at Dataotuan. As we noted last month, market leaders have emerged and are beginning to stand out from the ...

We’ve seen a lot happen in China’s group buy space over the past few months. What was a much tighter pack six months ago, has seen a number of competitors drop off and others jump to the fore. Accordi...